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“Home…lt’s not where you think it is” – A Call for Performers! Enrollment: April 10–14, 2025
April 10, 2025, - April 14, 2025,
A Call for Performers! Enrollment: April 10–14, 2025
Georgia’s Dance Performance Series
April 14 – June 2, 2025
Mondays, 6:45 – 8:30 PM
(6:45-7:45 Contemporary Dance class + 7:45-8:30 Rehearsal)
An evening of dance exploring “home”. What does it really mean? What does it mean to you, to me, to all of us?
“We are so excited to welcome you into this project – because it truly begins with you! Your presence, your creativity, and your heart is what will bring this show to life.
This show has been living in my imagination for a long time, and now with the support of my artistic hui (small group) of Georgia Ortega and Camille Monson and with Still & Moving Center as a collaborator, the show is finally coming to the dance floor!
At its core, this show is about incredible people like you creating meaningful art in a powerful space. If you have any questions or ideas along the way, please be sure to reach out.
Mahalo for saying Yes to this dance journey to, about, and for HOME.” ~ Elizabeth Lentz-Hill
“Home” will include at least these dances:
- The Home of My Heart – A welcome piece created and performed by Elizabeth
- Community Dance about Home (title TBA) – Created by Georgia and the dancers
- The Place Where – Duet choreographed by Elizabeth
- My Mighty Small Kinesphere – A dance love letter to small from someone who loves big
- Short Closing dance for full ensemble – pulling together the threads of the pieces and concepts of Home
Dancers of all levels are invited to perform in the Community Dance. See below for details.
Our event also plans to intersperse through the currently planned dances brief pieces/structured improvisations: Foundation/less (foundation), That Which Hold Us (walls), Emerging (roof/ceiling)
The audience will enjoy interactive pre-show experiences like homemade cookies, sending a postcard “home,” drawing their version of home, or pinning their birthplace on a map. As transitions during the show, we’ll play songs about home (or just songs that we love!) between the pieces. The evening will unfold as one flowing experience.
Schedule
Rehearsals:
Additional Full Ensemble Rehearsals:
Saturday, May 3, 4:00 pm-7:00 pm – Run Through
Saturday, May 31, 4:00 pm-7:00 pm – Run Through
Performance Week, Full Ensemble:
Wednesday, June 4, 6:00-8:30 pm Run Through
Thursday, June 5, 6:00-9:00 pm Dress Rehearsal
Friday, June 6, 7:30 PM Performance
Saturday, June 7, 7:30 PM Performance
Sign-ups to perform close, and first rehearsal begins on Monday, April 14, 2025.
We’d love to have you join on this beautiful creative journey and performance!
Elizabeth Lentz-Hill
Elizabeth’s students love the joy, humor and freedom of expression in her classes. Her classes inspire students to think about dance and life in new, exciting ways.
Elizabeth grew up in Hawaiʻi and is happy to be home, dancing in the place she loves, after more than twenty years of experience performing, teaching, choreographing and promoting dance. She has toured France, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. with Tennessee Dance Theatre, Chicago Moving Company, Lucky Plush Productions, and Breakbone DanceCo., and performed works by Bill T. Jones, Doug Elkins, Twyla Tharp, and Charles Weidman.
Prior to returning to Hawaiʻi in 2018, Elizabeth co-founded two dance companies and two regional dance festivals on the continent, one to promote modern dance in Chicago and one for 7-12th grade dancers and their dance educators in Mississippi. She served as an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), where she taught ballet, modern, dance education, anatomy, choreography, and dance theory classes. While at USM, Elizabeth worked to bridge the Dance and Theatre Departments, including co-creating a full-length devised theatre work with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and serving as Interim Chair for both departments. She holds a BA in Religion with a concentration in Women’s Studies from Carleton College, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington.
“Ms. Lentz-Hill has effervescence, an inner glow, and an absolute belief in what she is presenting in the studio. There is an indefinable type of energy that leaps from her to her students. These qualities projected not only from Ms. Lentz-Hill but also from the students in the residency as they worked with her. The dancers left her sessions with knowledge of a dynamic energy, knowing they had something of value to contribute to the community around them so much greater than an ability to be a technically sound dancer. To paraphrase a student in the residency – working with Ms. Lentz-Hill was not just a lesson in technique, it was a lesson in life! “ – Mid-Pacific Institute
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